Saturday, September 20, 2008
Like this will stop him
Dick Cheney and the Bushoviks lost another court case today. This one was brought by CREW to require him to preserve the records of his time in office.
A private group, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, is suing Cheney and the Executive Office of the President in an effort to ensure that no presidential records are destroyed or handled in a way that makes them unavailable to the public.This is a righteous ruling but as in all legal victories over the Bushoviks it assumes that they will obey the law, which they haven't done much of since 2000.
In a 22-page opinion, the judge revealed that in recent days, lawyers for the Bush administration balked at a proposed agreement between the two sides on how to proceed with the case.
Cheney and the other defendants in the case ''were only willing to agree to a preservation order that tracked their narrowed interpretation'' of the Presidential Records Act, wrote Kollar-Kotelly.
The administration, said the judge, wanted any court order on what records are at issue in the suit to cover only the office of the vice president, not Cheney or the other defendants in the lawsuit. The other defendants include the National Archives and the archivist of the United States.
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